Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (955 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxx>]

Am Sonntag, 16. Oktober 2011, 15:06:34 schrieb Stefan Seyfried:
> Hi all,
>
> when putting the Live CD iso onto an USB stick and then booting from
> that, I can often after an unclean shutdown (which is common with GNOME3
> / systemd) no longer boot. Either the mounting of the overlay fails
> ("/sbin/init not found" from KIWI, on a toughbook with intel i855GM
> graphics) or the system panics (kbd lights blinking, no debugging
> possible) after (trying to?) mounting the overlay (on a compaq nc6000,
> radeon mobility 9600 / RV350 graphics).
Hmm, I put great effort into making this more robust, but I might have to try 
harder.
> So my request / question is:
>
> Would it be possible to put a "erase data partition" entry into the
> gfxboot on live media?
Talk with Marcus, the kiwi maintainer - I'm not sure he reads this list.
Problem of course is that this only makes sense on USB sticks, but
the gfxboot menu would be the same for livecds. 

So preferably the menu would be hidden if it's running from CD.
But first we'd need to have the code to support the option - even if it's 
hidden yet.

> Or is there a secret "reset_to_factory" boot parameter which is
> undocumentend?
Nope.
> Right now, I have to use another computer to drop partition 4 of the
> stick, which is not good if the stick should be used as rescue medium... ;-)
Hmm, it shouldn't use another partion but a file in that partition. Removing 
that will do.

Greetings, Stephan

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